Love & Backgrounds - IO January Release & Hop Day 2

Hello, and welcome to Day 2 of the January IO Release Hop! 

For today's selection of cards, I am featuring the beautiful red rubber background stamp, Woven Circles.

This is a sweet card to celebrate my daughter and her husband. 

I used:

Hugging Arms

Primitive Hearts

Art of Love

Woven Circles

Rounded Rectangle Layers

I stayed in the pink family but turned up the color with my next card.  Here is what I used:

Woven Arms

Hearts on Fire

Jumbo Pinked Stitched Sentiment Banners

Coffee & Books (sentiment)

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Love Ya!

 Hi! 

This week I am hosting the Watercolor Wednesday Challenge.  Since I recently did a dance with Covid, I wanted a quick and easy tutorial.  I found it very relaxing, just what the doctor ordered!  You can find all the details HERE.

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Featured Items:

Eyelet Primitive Heart

Love Girls

Thanks so much for taking a look, and I hope you had an excellent Valentine's Day!  

 

 

Pink Roses - January IO Kit Hop & Giveaway Day 2

Welcome to Day 2 of the January Kit Hop!  

I love the sweet rose bouquet.  I can imagine stamping this on mini note cards.  This image would also look great on envelopes!  

For this next card, I used distress ink for the color and left the image in black and white.  

 

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January Limited Edition Kit

To view, the current Limited Edition Kits click HERE.

January Kit Hop Details:

• On January 1st and 2nd, the Impression Obsession Team is sharing projects with the NEW Limited Edition Red Rubber Kit! You can find a list of participants on the Impression Obsession Blog each day through the event.
• We are giving away TWO Impression Obsession Grab Bags for the event; the more you comment through the Kit Hop the more chances to win!
• All comments for each of the event days will be open until January 10th at 8 PM CT
• All winners will be announced on January 11th on the Impression Obsession Blog.

Thanks so much for spending a bit of time here on my blog during the first few days of the new year!  You always make my day!  Now hop along!  :)

  

IO Stamps Blog

Giovana Smith

Jeanne Streiff

Laura Fulcher

Angela Bode

Dina Kowal

Love Is All There Is - January IO Kit Hop & Giveaway

Hello, and happy new year!  Today is the first day of the IO January Kit Hop.  This kit is all about hearts and flowers; perfect timing for February cardmaking!

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January Limited Edition Kit

To view, the current Limited Edition Kits click HERE.

January Kit Hop Details:

• On January 1st and 2nd, the Impression Obsession Team is sharing projects with the NEW Limited Edition Red Rubber Kit! You can find a list of participants on the Impression Obsession Blog each day through the event.
• We are giving away TWO Impression Obsession Grab Bags for the event; the more you comment through the Kit Hop the more chances to win!
• All comments for each of the event days will be open until January 10th at 8 PM CT
• All winners will be announced on January 11th on the Impression Obsession Blog.

Thanks so much for spending a bit of time here on my blog during the first few days of the new year!  You always make my day!  Now hop along!  :)

  

IO Stamps Blog

Giovana Smith

Jeanne Streiff

Laura Fulcher

Laura Williams

Angela Bode

Anna Wight

So Sweet

Hello!  This week our Featured Stamper at SCS is Cindy!  I always enjoy coming across her cards.  I had to play along when I saw her adorable valentine in the gallery.  If you want to check out her cute inspiration head HERE to my SCS Gallery and follow the link.

This was fun to color and because of its large size I really didn't need to do anything extra to it.  I used Chocolate Heart Box and a sentiment from the Chocolate Lovers set.  

You're so sweet for stopping by and I thank you! 

 

From the Heart for Old is New Day

 Hello, today the Impression Obsession team is showcasing older stamps and dies in a new way!

This month's Old is New post is from the heart.  Since I have pulled out all the stops to share several cards, I will not keep you waiting!

First up you are on my Heart & Mind.  I randomly stamped the Brush Heart for the background.  I used the Stitched Tag and added the small tags from the Tags with Tags set.  

Secondly, I have Blessings in blue.  To create the gorgeous background I added Distress Oxide inks to the Leather kaleidoscope background stamp and spritzed with water.

Next, I call this Savage Respect.  Each word was individually stamped to create this card.  The stamps are perfect for journaling as well as various other creative projects.  I added three dragonflies to finish this off.  

Savage

Respect

Just Begin

Create

Dragonflies Die Set

Lastly, I made a card from the heart to work out some emotions.  The sweet girl is Dream Big and the sentiment is Stay Strong.

I hope you enjoyed viewing these projects showcasing stamps from last year!  Now don't forget to hop on over to the Impression Obsession Blog and check out what the rest of the team has created for OLD is NEW Day!

IO August Release Favorites - Stuff Happens

Hello and welcome to the Impression Obsession August Release Team Favorites Hop!  This is one of my favorite days because I get to share a favorite of all my work for the month!  (See Hop details below!)   This shroom is such a ... fungi to no line color.  Seriously, I thought "fun guy" and then realized I had a pun on my hand!  He REALLY is fun to no line color because he is not overly detailed.  The face and hands are optional and are included in the Mushrooms Happen set. 

We will be giving away THREE Impression Obsession Grab Bags - so the more you comment through our Favorites Hop the more chances to win! Comments will be open until Monday, August 23rd at midnight CT. All winners will be announced on Tuesday, August 24th on the Impression Obsession Blog.

 To see all of the new stamps and dies, including lots of veggie dies, stop by HERE.

Once again, I have a bonus card.  This one does not have a face and features a slightly older stamp.  This is for Watercolor Wednesday.  I created an inky background with Picked Raspberry, Mustard Seed, and Carved Pumpkin Ink spritzed with water.  Once dried I stamped the Wildflower Heart Wreath in the same inks.  Next, I added just a hint of texture by randomly stamping Shiplap on the card.  Lastly, I splattered the card with acrylic paint and water.  The sentiment is Make Joy.  I am also playing along with another DTGD Challenge with this!

Thanks so much for looking!

Impression Obsession Blog

Jeanne Streiff

Kia Gibson Clapper 

Laura Fulcher 

Laura Williams 

Lee Ann Barrett

Vicki Garrett 

Angela Bode 

Anna Wight 

Dina Kowal

Giovana Smith

Ilina Crouse

Faith, Hope, & Love for IO Die-Cut Day

Hello!  It's Die-Cut Day at Impression Obsession today.  

Don't you just hate it when you run out of time for projects?  The February IO Release included several scripty sentiments and lots of hearts so my plan was to make about 4 cards similar but showing the different sentiments.  Best laid plans and all that, I ended up with only one card but I love the clean lines and bright pop of color.  For a look at all the wonderful items in the Impression Obsession Store click HERE.

 

Today's Featured Items:

Faith Hope Love

Floral Heart

Stitched Tag #4

Crazy Stitched Set

It's Die-Cut Day at Impression Obsession so head on over to the IO Blog to see the list of participants featuring beautiful Impression Obsession dies!

      

     

    

This week the Art Nudge #61 photo prompt is S'mores so I am playing along with this card.  The S'mores die set is such fun to use and I love how the road texture adds a little something extra to the background!  

S'mores

Tree Line

Tag With Reinforcement

S'mores (sentiments)

Road Texture (as a background behind the trees)

 

   

Thanks so much for stopping by today!

I Love You

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It's Wednesday and that means it is time for a new Watercolor Wednesday Challenge and I am hosting this week!  I found a tutorial for painting a heart and thought it would be fun to give it a try.  

I wasn't comfortable with my drawing skills so I die cut a heart for a pattern.  I don't actually have a nesting set of hearts but I do have this sweet Eyelet Primitive Heart set from Impression Obsession.  I just cut off the scallops for my pattern.  I painted my heart in warm Daniel Smith watercolors which was a gift from my sweet friend Janeen.  Lastly, I added a sentiment from the Skinny Words set.

 All are welcome at Splitcoaststampers from beginner to expert and it's a free site!   We would love for you to join us!

 

Thanks so much for stopping by!

    
 

Inspired by a Phone Case

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Kia is our host for the Inspiration Challenge this week and she has chosen a beautiful site to inspire us!  I was inspired by a phone case.  My card is in the SCS gallery with the link to the photo if you would like to see it.

Here is what I used today:

Stitched Tag

Tag with Tags

Typewriter Sentiments

Dragonflies

I hope you have a lovely weekend!  

                 

                                  

  

Picket Fence Studios Release Day and Romance!

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 Hi!  It's time for the new Picket Fence Studios Release!  There is so much to love in this release!  Without meaning to I have a bit of a romance theme going on today. A mixed media heart, a wedding cake and a vacation spot!

First up is this amazing You or Wifi island set.  I added puffy clouds with the beautiful Layers of Clouds Stencil.  I love this stencil because of all the different ways I can create clouds.  

Next up is the new wedding set, To The Lovely Couple.  That cake!  Oh my!  I had so much fun coloring this yummy cake.  The color combo was chosen for a special wedding I am attending later this year.  I hope they love the card as much as I enjoyed creating it for them.  

And lastly, I went mixed media with the amazing Spliced Heartfire Burst Stencil.  First, I added gesso to mixed media paper.  Then I rubbed gelato over the front.  After it was dry I stenciled Golden Rose Paper Glaze. Once the glaze was dry I went around the heart stencil with a scribbles crayon (thank you Ceal for giving away the prize you won at Retreat, I am enjoying the Scribbles!) I activated the crayon with water and once that was dried I added some distress ink and sprinkled it with water.  Lastly, I added just the word "faith" from a sentiment in the Exhale Worry set.  

I have included this in the Free 4 All Challenge at SCS.

Thanks so much for stopping by today!